From:
"merylfaulkner"
Date: 2010-08-08 21:47:55 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] ferret at the vet - huge GI bleed/hemorrhage - sad update
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Thank you everyone for the posts. It helped to have some possible causes fo=
r what seemed such a horrendous event at the time. Indie did not survive. I=
called and they said he needed to go to the pet ER for the night, so I dro=
ve to pick him up and take him late Friday afternoon hopefully to have a tr=
ansfusion - they apparently have ferret blood donors on call if there is an=
emergency (wonderful news). When I arrived to collect him Indie was in a n=
ice warm incubator, but comatose. I stroked him for five minutes as I waite=
d for them to alert the EC; he took a few rather shallow breaths and moved =
his lips as I gave him a head rub, and then he quit breathing. The vet came=
by almost simultaneously, and said - "he died - I'm so glad you were here-=
I think he waited for you". I asked her to do a necropsy.
When I picked up his body Saturday (they are open Sat am) she said she foun=
d he was in liver failure, liver looked "destroyed" and his gall bladder al=
so looked "bad". She felt the failing liver increased the chance of bacteri=
al infection/bacterial load, then his gi bacterial levels increased and inf=
lammation started, then the hemorrhagic enteritis. She saw no stomach ulcer=
s, said everything else looked unremarkable.
When I took him in as a rescue about a year ago, the little guy had surgery=
(had adrenal and pancreatic nodules) and had a prolonged recovery on antib=
iotics. It took a long time for his incision to heal then, so the poor litt=
le guy had a few strikes against him. He had a good life with me =96 except=
for the recent spats with Fizzgig. Even though she did not directly cause =
his death, I wish for her sake her previous owners had not kept her isolate=
d and caged for most of her three years in their care(babies arrived, ferre=
t got caged, broke her tooth chewing on bars so they eventually gave her up=
). Not good for humans or any species to have such an isolated caged existe=
nce.
Meryl
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